I left the following comment elsewhere already: 1) This is NOT a device that's supposed to help children smile but help them CHEW FOOD properly (the display serves as a "bite counter").
It doesn't produce electric shocks.
2) The device is called Kami Kami sensor and is marketed by Tokyo-based Nitto Kagaku as one of their medical devices (and only in Japan).
The screenshot above shows the real product, but the text in English is FAKE, to sensationalize the totally harmless product: Nitto Kagaku doesn't export the sensor to other markets.
3) This news item is in fact from 2008. I reported about this first in English (http://bit.ly/rLEqG), before it got picked up by Gizmodo and a slew of other blogs.
1) This is NOT a device that's supposed to help children smile but help them CHEW FOOD properly (the display serves as a "bite counter").
It doesn't produce electric shocks.
2)
The device is called Kami Kami sensor and is marketed by Tokyo-based Nitto Kagaku as one of their medical devices (and only in Japan).
The screenshot above shows the real product, but the text in English is FAKE, to sensationalize the totally harmless product: Nitto Kagaku doesn't export the sensor to other markets.
3)
This news item is in fact from 2008. I reported about this first in English (http://bit.ly/rLEqG), before it got picked up by Gizmodo and a slew of other blogs.